clamping) first appeared in
Model Railroader
magazine in the
1940s. I too made up some of these clamps back in the 1970s
when there weren’t many options, but we now have many bet-
ter alternatives.
I’ve bought my share of different clamps over the years, all of
which I thought would be the last modeling clamps I would
ever “need” to purchase. Unfortunately, many of these didn’t
live up to their claims. You can see part of my current col-
lection of clamps in (6). Not shown are some small C clamps
and some small one-hand bar clamps; I even have some very
old small Delrin clamps which use rubber bands to provide
the clamping pressure; they actually work reasonably well,
although the rubber bands break at inappropriate times. I’m
sure they are no longer available.
6: I have over a dozen clamps. Here are just some of them.
6
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